Josh Sookman is the Founder and VP of Business Development for Guardly, the leading provider of indoor positioning and mobile app-based crisis communications solutions to large enterprises. Josh is an active member of ASIS and SIA, and a contributing writer to several security industry publications. His volunteer work in youth entrepreneurship has included initiatives with Stanford, MIT, Intel, Verizon and several local technology incubators in Toronto, Canada, where he resides. Contact Josh and learn more at: https://www.guardly.com

Technologies Offer You a Better Shot at Managing Active Shooter Threats

Josh Sookman

January 27, 2015

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Preparing for active shooter threats is an increasingly common challenge. Although these events are a low-probability risk at any given site, the magnitude of improperly handling an event of this nature can have devastating effects on your business (i.e. negative PR, public perception, lost sales), your company culture, and possibly even your career.

Smartphones Gain Ground, Mobile Cybersecurity Gains Importance

Josh Sookman

December 9, 2014

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Last month, I wrote an article on the Emergence of Smartphones as a Key Platform for Security Industry that discussed the growing ubiquity of smartphones within the workplace and the increasing number of mobile apps that have the ability to collect information from its environment such as video streams, audio streams, indoor location and information from other sensors.

Emergence of Smartphones as a Key Platform for Security Industry

Josh Sookman

November 25, 2014

Convergence and integration have become buzzwords in the security industry, and mostly for good reason.

Vendor System Integrations Accelerate in the Security Industry

Josh Sookman

April 23, 2013

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With the shift from analog to digital and few managed systems to many, security operations teams are facing new challenges when it comes to managing vast amounts of real-time and archived information, and making sense of it all when important decisions need to be made quickly. Meet big data.

Whitepaper: Assessing Emergency Response Times on Campus

Josh Sookman

December 5, 2012

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This whitepaper from Guardly Safe Campus compares the swiftness of incident response efforts by university campus security between new smartphone applications and existing methods of reporting.

Conducting a Workplace Violence Threat Analysis and Developing a Response Plan

There are few situations a security professional will face that is more serious than a potential workplace violence threat. Every security professional knows and understands that all employers have a legal, ethical and moral duty to take reasonable steps to prevent and respond to threats of violence in their workplace.

From extreme weather to cyberattacks to workplace violence, every organization will experience at least one, if not multiple, critical events per year. And in today’s interconnected digital and physical world, the cascading safety, brand, and revenue impacts of critical events are more severe.

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